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Sponsor, sponsor or command sponsorship?
What is the difference?
If you are married, the service member is the sponsor of the dependents. Your sailor is your sponsor.
When a sailor gets orders to a new command, they are given a sponsor. This is a senior sailor who helps tghem to check in and get to all the places they need to be.
Command sponsorship is what a dependent MUST have in order for the Navy to pay for them to go overseas,ship household goods, get housing and cost of living allowances and use the military facilities. There is a screening and approval process. E-3 and below and not authorized to take dependents overseas.
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So my fiancee is still in Japan and is taken leave next month and we are gettting married. The comand still says they are trying to get him stationed back in the states so he can be at least closer to me and our son but now basicly there is no way I can move to Japan so we are discussing housing here in the states and that it is a great possiablity that we will just be apart for the next few years.I currently live in a small appartment that is in the basement of a relatives house, although it is comfortable I need my own space, I have only been doing this because I wasnt sure where we would be in the next year and didn't want to be moving more then needed. This place is way to small and we need a bigger place. We are seriously considering buying a smaller home that we could use for rental property if the need would arise that I could move to wherever he may be. My question is how long does it take to start getting BAH after we get married and homes varry greatly around here as far as cost so how do they figure what you will get and what all does BAH include?
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You can look up the BAH for your area by zip code. If you can't find the charts via google, let me know and I'll try to find them. I thought it was in my bookmarks, but it isn't.
It takes a couple pay cycles for BAH to kick in after he submits the paperwork, but it will be backdated to the date of the marriage. I'd say 6 to 8 weeks.
BAH is usually enough to cover rent and utilities. If you find a cheaper place and are tight with your utility use, you may keep any extra money you save.
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Would the bah be the same amount for his son as it is for being married because I do get some but not as much as the google site with the zip codes is showing also would the bah go directly to me or does it all go through him?
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I think it is the same off the top of my head. It was for my husband's child. However, they have the new child support BAH differential, so perhaps he should ask his yeoman or PSD if there is a difference. That may be why you only get partial BAH? Sounds like you're getting it direct deposit? That's how the Navy likes to do it these days.
I don't know if it would be back-dated to when he enlisted, or to when his son was added. Again, a good question for the folks who handle his pay.
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It isn't the same as the one BAH with dependents. Why? He is only paying child support the kid isn't living with him.
"It depends on whether or not you have legal and physical custody of your children, pay child support, and/or live in single-type government quarters. If you have legal and physical custody of your children, then you are authorized BAH at the with-dependent rate if not assigned adequate family-type government quarters. If your former spouse has custody and you are paying adequate child support (at least in an amount of your BAH-DIFF rate) you are authorized BAH at the with-dependent rate if not in government quarters or BAH-DIFF if assigned single-type government quarters."
BAH-DIFF rates are really low. I found the 09 rates and for an E4 it was $200 where as a E4 with a dependent (living in GL) would have gotten almost $1100. So it isn't the same.
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Also would the bah be back dated to the time he joined for his son since his son wasn't origanally listed as a dependent when he enlisted?
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It will be paid starting the date he added the child, not back to the date he went into bootcamp.
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Yes I'm getting direct deposit and he says it comes from the navy not. Him and its child support so I guess next time we talk I will have to ask him to look into the bah for a child because that is a lot of months we could of been getting help.
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Is the ultimate decision for command sponsorship up to the command or is it like a check sheet kind of thing? I ask because my fiance's chief said that I should easily get sponsored after our wedding in July but I think my fiance will still be E2...How quickly could he move up to E3 because he has been E2 for a month now.
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The command has to approve the sponsorship, it is not automatic. Has to do with command finances and suitability of the dependents for living overseas. I knew a couple where she couldn't come over because they'd had a domestic dispute arrest. Also, high cost areas such as Japan can be denied because housing isn't available and even with COLA and OHA, it is too darn expensive.
From E-2 to E-3 takes nine months time in rate. Should be almost guaranteed.
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